X is experiencing a knowledge middle outage

If you happen to had bother utilizing X as we speak, you are not alone. DownDetector reports that over 5,000 individuals have reported points accessing the social media platform as of 4PM ET. X’s official Engineering account claims the difficulty is due to a knowledge middle outage.

“X is conscious a few of our customers are experiencing efficiency points on the platform as we speak,” X’s Engineering account writes. “We’re experiencing a knowledge middle outage and the staff is actively working to remediate the difficulty.” The platform final skilled a major outage in March 2025. On the time, X CEO Elon Musk blamed the outage on a “large cyberattack.” Safety researchers who seemed into the difficulty later mentioned it was poor security on X’s part that left the corporate’s servers susceptible to assault.

Replace, Might 22, 6:30PM ET: Customers are nonetheless reporting issues accessing X, although at a lesser fee than its peak of three:40PM ET. The X Engineering report has not posted an replace since its unique tweet.

Replace, Might 22, 9:35PM ET: X continues to be experiencing site-wide outage. Wired has reported {that a} fireplace broke out at a knowledge middle leased by Elon Musk in Hillsboro, Oregon. It is not fairly clear if that has something to do with the present outage.